Over $75,000 has been raised to help bring home a Greek Australian man brutally attacked on the Greek island of Rhodes, news.com.au. has reported.
Charlie Kathopoulis, 43, was in Rhodes completing his national service for the Greek military and helping to settle his late father’s estate when he was left with horrific injuries after two men broke into his residence.
According to Charlie’s sister, Michelle, CCTV footage from the attack shows Charlie approaching the men outside to tell them to leave, but he was badly beaten on the head with a steel bar and stabbed multiple times in the throat and chest.
“There was a blood trail to his bedroom and the bed and pillows are completely sodden in blood,” Michelle told news.com.au.
Charlie sustained major head trauma, skull fractures, an explosive fracture to the jaw, a critically damaged windpipe, a broken collarbone and punctured lungs from the attack.
Charlie sustained serious injuries in the attack on the Greek island of Rhodes. Photo: news.com.au.
He remains in intensive care at Rhodes Hospital, while two men have since been arrested for the attack.
The Kathopoulis family are now by Charlie’s bedside in Rhodes where, Michelle said, her brother was initially non-responsive with head injuries leaving him in a medically induced coma for 35 days.
The family is not sure of the condition of Charlie’s windpipe, his larynx, his vocal chords, or his neurological state.
He has been accepted at Royal Darwin Hospital for life-saving surgeries, but it is going to cost the family upwards of $450,000 to get him to Australia via Aeromedical retrieval from Rhodes, direct to Darwin.
In response, they have started a GoFundMe to help raise funds. So far, $76,098 has been raised of a $200,000 goal.
“We are very humbled, grateful, gobsmacked, surprised, emotional, and cannot thank people enough – we have been so very moved by this,” Michelle said in response to the donations.
Sydney Olympic FC has announced the departure of Head Coach, Ante Juric, at the end of the current season.
Ante has been coaching at the Club for 6 years in many capacities with a great deal of success. His nine years as a former player for the Club led to his induction into the Sydney Olympic Hall of Fame for his contributions to the Club.
Ante will continue coaching the team for the finals campaign after securing the minor premiership a few weeks ago in a very tight finish for the NPL1 competition.
Ante is fully focused on the Major Semi Final this weekend against Manly on Saturday with a 3pm kick off at Belmore Stadium, after Manly beat Blacktown City 2-1 in extra time to earn the right to play off against the Minor Premiers.
Damon Hanlin, the Club’s President, would like to thank Ante for his six years at the club as Head Coach and for his contribution over the many years he has been associated with Sydney Olympic.
Ante (right) with Damon Hanlin (second from right).
“I wish Ante all the best in his future coaching roles, and it would be great if he can leave Sydney Olympic lifting the NPL1 trophy in the Grand Final in a few weeks,” Hanlin said.
Due to personal circumstances, Ante and the Club have mutually agreed that he will not be renewing his contract for next season.
In a statement, the Club said everyone at Sydney Olympic wishes Ante all the best for the rest of this season and for the future.
Dozens of people are feared to have died off the Greek island of Kaparthos after their boat sank while attempting to make the perilous crossing from Turkey, The Guardian has reported.
Greek Coast Guard officials said that 29 men were rescued 33 nautical miles off Kaparthos, with up to 50 people still missing.
Those rescued were from Afghanistan, Iraq and Iran, and told authorities there had been roughly 60 to 80 people on board the vessel when it went down.
The boat had set sail from the Antalya area on the southern Turkish coast and had been heading to Italy when it ran into trouble during the night.
A massive search operation by port authorities and navy officials will continue for the next few hours.
The Greek Shipping Minister, Ioannis Plakiotakis, said the Hellenic navy, air force, coast guard patrol boats, as well as commercial ships sailing in the southern Aegean at the time, had all joined the search and rescue operation.
“Protecting human life is a daily concern and our absolute priority,” Plakiotakis said in a statement. “In the last two years, in 145 search and rescue operations, more than 6,000 people have been saved.”
— Υπουργείο Ναυτιλίας & Νησιωτικής Πολιτικής (@naftilias) August 10, 2022
“As always, like today, Greece is saving lives in the Aegean.”
The most common sea route for migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa has been from Turkey to nearby Greek islands.
The influx of Europe-bound migrants to Greece has dropped dramatically over the past year, but this week’s crossing is a reminder of the lengths people fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Asia and Africa are willing to endure to find refuge in the west.
The European Commission confirmed on Wednesday that it is winding up its ‘enhanced surveillance’ of Greece’s government spending after 12 years.
The move marks a formal end to a major financial crisis that threatened to see Greece ejected from the euro single currency group, imposed severe hardship on its citizens and roiled global markets.
In a statement, the Commission said it will end its “enhanced surveillance” program on August 20, noting that “Greece has delivered on the bulk of the policy commitments” made to its partners in the 19-country euro area and has “achieved effective reform implementation.”
“The resilience of the Greek economy has substantially improved and the risks of spill-over effects on the Euro area economy have diminished significantly. Hence, maintaining Greece under enhanced surveillance is no longer justified,” the statement said.
EU confirms ‘enhanced surveillance’ of Greece will end after 12 years.
The Commission added that the monitoring of the country’s economic, fiscal and financial situation will continue in the context of the post-programme surveillance (PPS) and the European Semester.
Greece was granted billions of euros in three successive bailouts after 2010, when Athens lost access to international bond markets after admitting it had misreported key financial data.
The country has been in enhanced surveillance status since 2018, when its third bailout program ended.
In response to the Commission’s statement, Greek Finance Minister, Christos Staikouras, said the end of the surveillance was a great achievement.
August 20th marks the achievement of a major national goal for Greece, the ending of #EU’s enhanced surveillance framework, thanks to the sacrifices of the Greek people, the prudent economic & reform-oriented policy consistently implemented by the #government. #MinFin#economy
“With this development, along with the premature repayment of the International Monetary Fund loans and the lifting of capital restrictions, a difficult chapter for our nation ends after 12 years,” Staikouras said in a statement.
“Greece is returning to European normality and stops being an exception in the eurozone.
“This achievement is the fruit and the recognition of the great sacrifices of Greek society, of the government’s fiscal policies but also of its broader reforms.”
Although Greece has returned to international bond markets, its credit rating remains below investment grade, which raises its borrowing costs and precludes many potential investors from buying Greek bonds. The government in Athens says it hopes to regain investment grade by next year.
Children from all over western Sydney have been invited to participate in the return of the Canterbury-Bankstown Children’s Festival, planned for Revesby on September the 11th.
The highly successful Childrens Festival, founded in Western Sydney 23 years ago, was reborn on 26th of June this year in Darling Harbour, after a three-year gap caused by the Covid Pandemic.
The President of the Children’s Festival Organisation, Thuat Nguyen AM, said today he “warmly invited schools and youth groups in western Sydney to take part in this much-loved event”.
“After the successful Sydney Children’s Festival on the 26th of June at Pyrmont Bay Park, Darling Harbour, we are now confident to go ahead and organise a festival for the children of western Sydney at Abel Reserve, Revesby 2212 (next to Revesby Train Station).
“It has been challenging to keep our organisation together during nearly three years of Covid but after we successfully staged our return event in Darling Harbour in June we are now full of enthusiasm to come back to the West of Sydney.
“Our new venue in Revesby will open up this festival to many more families who live in that corner of the West to enjoy a spectacular Children’s Parade in beautiful traditional costumes and highly entertaining performances by children from various cultural backgrounds, along with a dozen or so interesting outdoor games and enjoyable food.
“The Children’s Festival is a good example of how to showcase the fact that Australia is the most successful multicultural country in the world where children of all backgrounds grow up as citizens of the world”, he said.
The festival will be officially opened by the NSW Minister for Multiculturalism, the Hon Mark Coure MP, in the presence of the Mayor of Canterbury Bankstown Council, Clr Khal Asfour.
Childrens’ participation can begin immediately. Those children14-year-old and under are invited to participate in the Poster Design Competition with the theme “Caring for the environment is everyone’s responsibility”.
Full details on entering the Poster Design Competition as well as Expressions of Interest for Stage Performance and Costume Parade, Stall Hire and nominations for the Children’s Festival Excellence Award are all available on our website at: www.childrensfestival.org.au
The annual Macarthur Multicultural Children’s Festival planned for August in Koshigaya Park has been postponed till February 26 in 2023.
This time last year, 19-year-old Peter Zekyrias was a student of St Mary’s Cathedral College sitting his trial exams for his High School Certificate.
Today, Peter is enrolled in a Bachelor of Engineering and Business at the University of Technology Sydney and is the most recent recipient of a $115,000 scholarship.
It is a scholarship established to “foster the entrepreneurial skills of UTS engineering students and to provide them with an opportunity to gain knowledge of and be involved in business start-ups.”
Speaking with The Greek Herald, the Mechanical Engineering and Business Management major explains how he came to receive the scholarship and the origins of his passion for entrepreneurial engineering.
Peter Zekyrias graduated from St Mary’s Cathedral College in 2021. Photo: Supplied to TGH
TGH: How did you first discover the John Heine Memorial Scholarship for Entrepreneurial Engineering?
Halfway through my first semester, I received an email from the UTS Scholarship Department advising me that I had qualified to apply for the scholarship.
I applied because it firstly aligns with my passion for engineering, a passion first brought on by my obsession with Formula One racing. As a child, my parents would take my brother and I to the Grand Prix in Melbourne and we would sit opposite the pits watching the mechanics and engineers work on these cars.
As I got older, I started thinking and analysing the aerodynamics, the mechanics, the fuel efficiency, the safety and the technology associated with putting these cars together and wanted to contribute to that one day.
I also applied because it aligned with my other passion: business. My dream has always been to run my own business one day because it allows you to run with your own ideas and innovations without restrictions. It also allows you to put your personal attributes into practice.
This Scholarship is an opportunity for me to follow through with my goals and knowing that such a prestigious foundation has invested in me also keeps me accountable in my studies.
19-year-old Peter Zekyrias on campus at the University of Sydney. Photo: Supplied to TGH.
TGH: How did it feel when you discovered you had received the scholarship?
A week after having been interviewed for the scholarship, I received an email saying I had been chosen as the recipient. It took a short moment for me to register what I was reading and then it was just pure elation. My parents were really happy and proud that my academic achievements were being recognised on such a large scale.
I feel so honoured and privileged to have become the recipient of this scholarship. It is a very substantial scholarship and there are so many talented and deserving students who also applied for the scholarship and endured a really difficult year last year just like me, trying to navigate sitting the HSC while in lockdown for months.
Each and every one of them are worthy of receiving this scholarship so it’s definitely something I don’t take for granted and I’m very grateful to UTS and the support of the John Heine Memorial Foundation for giving me this opportunity and for believing in me.
TGH: What advice do you have for students in year 12 now?
The last two years have been challenging and I think the key is to never give up when the going gets tough. My advice to current Year 12 students is to stay focused on their goals, keep motivated and stay determined to achieve them.
He was remanded in custody for 11 months until on July 11, 2022 when he was unanimously found not guilty by an Athens court.
“I’m not celebrating, I’m bitter and need time to adjust,” he told Ekathimerini.
Theodosis was born in 1978 in Melbourne, Australia and at the age of eight he and his family moved to Athens. Speaking of his upbringing in Greece, he said: “We went camping and went for walks in the forest, to the stream, we did explorations. It was the trigger for me to become a nature lover.”
In his interview with Ekathimerini, he detailed the events of August last year, beginning with August 3.
August 3, 2021
Theodosis said he was watching the Olympics on TV and the program was interrupted by an emergency alert reporting the fire in Varibobi, East Attica. He thought that he had to help in any way possible.
“The more hands, the easier the fire will be extinguished I thought,” he said.
He put on a pair of jeans, a navy blue long-sleeved shirt, a blue surgical mask, a khaki hat, took a towel and left on his motorcycle.
He describes his movements, telling how he led a horse from the Varibobi Equestrian Club to safety by wrapping his towel around its neck, and how he helped local residents save their houses until the soles of his shoes melted from the high temperature. Seeing he was barefoot, one of the residents gave him a pair of boots to wear.
“My whole body ached from the effort,” he said, adding that he rested on August 4 before returning to the affected area the next day.
In the early hours of August 6, 2021, however, volunteers blocked his way with their car and handed him over to police officers.
“I couldn’t figure out what I had done wrong,” he said.
One day earlier, a resident of the area had informed the volunteers about the suspicious movements of a stranger with a motorbike similar to his. When the witness was called to identify Theodosis, he testified that it was not the same man he had seen, nor was it the same vehicle.
No lighters, matches or any incendiary device were found on him during the arrest.
The main prosecution witness, a volunteer who testified to the police, said that from the points where Theodosis passed by him, new fires broke out.
“We had a lot of flare-ups and he would show up very often after each flare-up,” she claimed.
However, she admitted that she had not seen him set the fire.
Theodosis Kakouris. Photo: ThodorisNikolaou
Testifying in his defence, a resident of the fire-affected area said: “He put his heart and soul into helping put out the fire. I rule out a man who helped so much to have any involvement in causing fires.”
“With his help, we saved four of the five houses in the block,” added another resident of Varibobi who was a lawyer by profession and had taken videos and photos showing Theodosis assisting.
Theodosis’ time in prison
Despite this evidence, Theodosis was remanded in custody for arson with intent on three occasions, one at the Krioneri cemetery on August 4 and two in the Madri area of Krioneri on 6 August.
His pre-trial custody continued despite a report by the Greek Fire Department notifying the Prosecutor’s Office that the fire in Varibobi started from a high-voltage pillar, citing “faulty control and maintenance” as the cause.
Nevertheless, Theodosis was taken to the prison at Korydallos, where mainly foreign prisoners are kept.
As he explained, it was decided that it would be safer for him there, rather than sharing a cell as an “arsonist” with Greek prisoners who might have been connected to the fire-stricken area.
He says he avoided leaving his cell and went into the yard for the first time after the first 21 days of his sentence had passed. Two months into his sentence, he started working in the prison canteen.
“I tried to fill my everyday life, to get a routine so that I didn’t think about it and let it get me down. Whenever I thought about it, I felt enormous bitterness,” he said.
July 11, 2022
His attorneys Nikolaos Loukopoulos and Thrasyvoulos Kontaxis presented the report of the Fire Department and Theodosis was found unanimously not guilty by three judges.
“The chief justice spoke of a miscarriage of justice and wished me to continue helping, to be myself. I do not know if I can do that. I don’t want to be somewhere with a lot of people,” Theodosis said.
“I can talk about it but I don’t know if it helps me or if it makes me stay trapped in this situation.
“For so long in prison I sought my freedom and while I have obtained it, I still have a long way to go. I won’t go near a fire again. Only if it erupted near me, at 50 or 100 meters, would I go to help,” he concluded.
According to the latest statistics, Thor: Love and Thunder has grossed over $601 million at the international box office and it is the seventh-highest-grossing film of 2022. It is the fourth film in the Thor series, and the 29th film in the ever-expansive ‘Marvel Cinematic Universe’ or MCU, which have collectively been seen by countless millions and grossed over $27 billion at the international box office.
Thor: Love and Thunder has been criticised by some for its inconsistent writing and direction. Known for their signature action-comedy formula, this latest addition to the MCU certainly had moments where the audience burst into laughter at the cinema. As they often must, this film had to balance rapid action segments, casual humour, and the serious theme of a main character’s illness and mortality. It is up to the viewers to what degree they felt this balance was struck effectively.
But, in so far as it relates to the perception of the Greeks, some criticism definitely should follow.
Without spoiling too much for those who have yet to see it, the middle third of the film focuses on Thor, the ‘God of Thunder’, and his entourage seeking the help from their fellow Gods to defeat a villain. In particular, they must track down reclusive Gods who reside in Omnipotence City, and who it turns out, are led by Thor’s inspiration and ‘hero’, Zeus, the Greek ‘God of Lightning’.
— Marvel Stans Telugu ❤️⚡️ (@Marvel_Stans) April 18, 2022
Now, not only does this middle third of the film end up bearing no fruit, plot-wise (in that it is redundant to the final third of the film) but it is also the root of my gripe. In fact, it was seemingly implanted within the film to serve as the trigger for a fifth Thor movie, as was almost certainly confirmed by the mid-credits scene. So, other than its redundancy, plot-wise, it is the substantive content of this middle third that is problematic. The writers, Taika Waititi and Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, establish Zeus as a kind of doppelgänger in near-complete antithesis to Thor.
Before he is seen on-screen, Zeus, performed by Russell Crowe, is presented as key to Thor’s plans and as the archetypal ‘inspiration’ for the younger hero. When finally revealed on-screen, the gods’ similarities disappear quickly. Other than the superficial age, weight and aesthetic difference between the two, it becomes apparent that Zeus is to be representative of everything that Thor is not. Zeus is depicted as superficial, vainglorious, debauched and unsympathetic, concerned more with ‘orgies’ and craven seclusion in Omnipotence City. Thor, on the other hand, is shown in great measure to be idealistic, compassionate, brave and sympathetic.
Zeus is depicted as superficial, vainglorious, debauched and unsympathetic, concerned more with ‘orgies’.
This depiction of Zeus accords only with the most uncritical and skin-deep interpretation of the Greek God that we might glean from the sources, and even then it’s doubtful. As much as this ‘Zeus’ is meant to reflect the Zeus of Greek antiquity, it falls lamentably short. Although the film was probably correct to write Zeus as somewhat pragmatic and haughty, depictions from the numerous ‘sword-and-sandal’ epics of the 1950s and 60s do a much better job in representing nearly all his other aspects. The ‘Zeus’ of this film appears to me as if someone skimmed through the collective sources on the God, and stopped only to read his mythological escapades with a few Nymphs and mortal beauties.
The Zeus whom the Greeks revered as the keeper-of-oaths, to whom they looked up at the cloudy sky, in whose name they kept guests safe under the rules of ξενία, whom they obeyed by founding cities in distant lands, and whom they honoured at the Olympic Games every 4 years, was nowhere to be found in this film. The ‘Zeus’ of Thor: Love and Thunder is at best a shallow phantasm, a blurred, thrice-over facsimile of the ‘Zeus’ one might know after hearing a friend of a friend recount what they could recall from the myths of Zeus and Leda or Europa.
The Zeus whom the Greeks for millennia revered as the ‘King of the Gods’ is essentially unidentifiable with the ‘Zeus’ of this film. What we receive, instead, is a haphazardly written stock-villain, ostensibly forced into the plot to provide the MCU with a fifth Thor movie. Quite frankly, to have transplanted a stock-standard ‘redemption’ or ‘old-mentor’ arc from film history would have been an improvement. When watching the film, I couldn’t help but think how much better (and accurate) Zeus’ depiction would have been, had it followed the lines of the character of ‘Doc Hudson’ from the 2006 film Cars!
In the span of walking away from the cinema with my friends, an alternative was already being drafted in my mind. An old, weathered Zeus, disillusioned with battling evil, focused more with the management of the secluded Omnipotence City, disagrees with Thor at first, and then returns in the final third of the film to save the beleaguered hero, redeeming himself and teaching the younger hero a few things along the way. It’s tried and true, nothing wrong with that. A unique and authentic implementation in this film could easily have been expected from Waititi and Crowe.
Now, I considered whether the ‘Zeus’ of Thor: Love and Thunder was really meant to be the Zeus of Greek antiquity at all. Perhaps it was an accurate depiction, not of that Zeus, but the ‘Zeus’ that has been a character in Marvel comics since 1949? To put it simply and succinctly, from what I can tell, it wasn’t a faithful rendition of that character either. So, we’ve established that the film unnecessarily depicts ‘Zeus’ as unlikeable and villainous. Now then, what’s my gripe with that?
It is clear to me that the Zeus of this film will inevitably be connected by people, no matter how few or many, to both the Greeks of yesteryear and today. Again, Zeus as he is in this film, will be representative of Greeks and Hellenism in the eyes of many, no matter to how superficial a degree one might argue. This is to say nothing of Crowe’s attempt at a ‘Greek accent’. Some might suppose, ‘No trouble! The Greece of Gods and Heroes is over, and Zeus plays no role in our identity today!’ They would be wrong.
Today, us modern Greeks are overwhelmingly represented by Orthodox Christianity, but this issue is not just one of religion, but of culture. It is an issue of identity and one that we in Australia should be acutely aware of. The significant and indelible connection forged over the millennia between the Greece of Zeus and the Greece of Today cannot be redacted. Greeks of the diaspora, bombarded from every angle with looming assimilation, should understand the importance of these cultural connections, in their many shapes and facets, to our Hellenism.
After watching Thor: Love and Thunder, one can’t help but question whether this inaccurate and corrupt depiction of Zeus, symbolic as he is of Greece, a lightning-rod for our past, is something that we can condone as Greeks. Because, after all, is Zeus not Greek too?
In Istanbul, Archbishop Elpidophoros of America announced that the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese had secured an initial amount of $350,000 US toward the rebuilding efforts and relief of those displaced after a fire destroyed parts of the Balıklı Greek Hospital last week.
The historic hospital, which has been operational since 1753 serves the city’s Greek community as a nursing home.
In a statement following his meeting with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, Archbishop Elpidophoros said “I was happy to inform His All-Holiness that our Omogeneia has responded immediately to our call to mitigate material damages.”
I just met with Patriarch Bartholomew at the Phanar and informed him that @GOARCH is committing an initial amount of $350,000 to repair the damage caused by the fire to the Balikli Greek Hospital. Our Omogeneia responded immediately to our call: https://t.co/6hXiJ9ulkVpic.twitter.com/CR3UMnbAAb
The American Archbishop, who arrived in Istanbul on Tuesday for the third pilgrimage in celebration of the Archdiocese of America’s 100th anniversary of its founding, will be visiting the Balıklı Hospital in the coming days.
Anna Polyviou. She’s the award-winning chef everyone remembers by her distinctive pink mohawk, quirky urban style and contagious fun attitude.
But how did she get to where she is today?
In an interview with The Greek Herald, Anna details how she’s always been inspired by her Greek Cypriot heritage from a very young age.
“It’s funny because everyone is always like ‘how did you get into cooking?’ and it’s like as a Greek Cypriot, I’ve always been around food,” Anna says with a laugh.
“I mean it was something we always thought about when we woke up. My mum was always like ‘what do you want to eat?’
Anna has always been inspired by her mum. Photo: Delicious Magazine / Supplied.
“All I’ve ever known is about food and eating and feasting and celebrating… It’s not like I wanted to be a chef, it kind of like just ended up being like that.”
‘Never forget where I started from’:
It’s this passion for food which has led Anna to being one of Australia’s must-loved and popular celebrity chefs with an extensive career repertoire.
Anna has not only worked in the world’s best kitchens such as the Pierre Herme Patisserie in Paris, London’s Claridge’s Hotel and the Sofitel Melbourne, but she also put the ‘hotel patisserie’ on the map as the former Creative Director of Pastry at Shangri-La Hotel in Sydney.
The chef has even released two books, Sweet Street in 2018 and Kids’ Corner in 2019, and has been a guest judge on Network 10’s TV program, MasterChef, for three years running.
Amongst it all, Anna has won a raft of awards including best dessert in the UK, as well as Australia’s Hotel Chef of the Year and Pastry Chef of the Year.
Desserts by Anna. Photos supplied.
When we ask the Greek Cypriot what these achievements mean to her, she’s as humble as ever and says it wouldn’t have been possible without the support of her family.
“I never forget where I started from,” Anna says with a smile.
“When I won Victorian Apprentice of the Year… I still remember the fact that my godmother Angela and my mum were in the kitchen washing my knives, one was pressing my uniform, my godsister Georgia and her husband hired a truck to put all my equipment and utensils in there. Everyone was laughing at me because I went overboard.
Anna has always been supported by her family. Photo: Delicious Magazine / Supplied.
“But I won and that got me over to the UK and then I won another competition and that got me to Paris and then I came back and I won another competition that got me to the US.
“So all these different opportunities but opportunities that I’m forever grateful for. I never take them from a grain of salt.”
Moving past disappointment:
Of course though, with every opportunity comes a number of setbacks as well and in Anna’s case, her hardest challenge to date has been letting go of her dream of opening her first-ever patisserie shop in Sydney’s inner west.
The Greek Herald first reported on the opening of Anna’s patisserie shop in the old Cornersmith building in Marrickville in February this year.
But now, Anna says, the business deal fell through.
“I mean I love Marrickville and I love the locals. The community is amazing but unfortunately, it just didn’t work out,” she says.
“I was in a bit of a dark place… It was really hard because there were a lot of people behind [the shop], working on it and then everyone was waiting for it and then it just didn’t happen. I was very depressed.”
Despite this, Anna is determined to pick herself up and look into opening another Sydney shop that will be ‘bigger’ and ‘more brand new,’ whilst also continuing to work on producing her premium cookie dough.
Anna is moving forward.
“We are looking at a new shop but it’s going to be a very different concept. Mum will be part of it in different elements. She will definitely be doing masterclasses. We will be doing workshops with Greek pastries and desserts and degustations as well,” the chef says.
With this exciting development on the agenda, we just had to ask Anna what keeps her motivated in the face of hardships and her answer is simple.
“Food is our love language,” she concludes.
“You know, we have hurdles, we have obstacles. I mean how exciting is it moving forward? It’s so cool and I think my number one fan is my mother and the Greek community has been fantastic as well.”
